Mr. Chair, the science is clear that vaccines save lives and that masks reduce transmission. What a government has to do is also assess the risk.
I think my colleague is also talking about risk. We are mitigating risks to the best of our ability so that we can protect the health and safety of Canadians. Risk levels change. Data and the evolution of the virus change. We saw it when omicron hit. We had to reintroduce some public health measures that we had previously lifted.
We are constantly responding to the changing and evolving virus, Mr. Chair, but we are always guided by our desire to protect the health and safety of Canadians.